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A Paperboy's Song (yet sung)

from Chelsea Change (Blind Flower Girl) by C Change

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Early morning riser, hear the paperboy comes, dealing out the stories of the neighborhood bums: "Lindy lit the lawn; Loose Lag is on the run; teacher caught a school kid bringing in a gun. "

White fences keep him out. White fences keep him in. In the hole of the suburbs, every day begins again. Landlocked, he calls the wind – but the wind just keeps him in sailing circles in waters of Everyman Land.

No!

Not today. No one listens like they did before. They hear in shapes. Circling squares made to fit, not me anymore. What's that you hear? The sounds that bound being drown by the vanguard.

Lo!

A siren sings a new song on the other side.

Weaving through the district full of carnivores and tricks. Whistles sing the soundtrack in his neighborhood digs. Screamo hails a ride from a show. Here rises dawn. Suits late to the board room, waving out his arm.

Up and down he rides the grid, gotta feed choleric kids, at the mercy ticking meter in the gridlock once again. Hearing stories that he lives vicariously in Sundry City melting pavement seeking salt light new within.

'Mother', 'Mama', 'Madre' couldn't wait to hear her name; knees bent to the stirrups sees her future now a cage.

Adam's out of town. Heard of Cleve? What does it mean?

Nest is now swept empty. She won't tolerate new scenes. But she'll watch them on TV– soaps and talk shows–as she cleans. While the neighbors play the act, the grapevines are bearing leaves. Outside calamity, in her bubble she can't breathe. Help the mother, father, child... Paradise is parity (perhaps parody?).

No!
Lo!

credits

from Chelsea Change (Blind Flower Girl), released May 26, 2013
Produced by Mike Metzger and C.B. Ozburn
Written by Jennifer Hardy and C.B. Ozburn
Arrangement by C.B. Ozburn and Mike Metzger

Performance: Jennifer Hardy (lead vocals); Mike Metzger (drums, bass, vocals, organ); Eric Sabo (bass); C.B. Ozburn (guitar, vocals)

Recorded at Butcher Block Studios, Alexandria, VA (engineer: Mike Metzger). Additional recording at Crying Woolf studio, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (engineer: C.B. Ozburn)

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C Change is a jug band of microphone controllin' poets, painters, string pickers and bowers, and winds blowing something new.
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